Inside Austronesian Houses
Perspectives on domestic designs for living
Edited by: James J. Fox
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Description
The eight papers in this volume examine the spatial organization of a variety of Austronesian houses and relate the domestic design of these houses to the social and ritual practices of the specific groups who reside within them. The houses considered in this volume range from longhouses in Borneo to the meeting-houses of the Maori of New Zealand and from the magnificent houses of the Minangkabau of Sumatra to the simpler dwellings of the population of Goodenough Island in Papua New Guinea. Together these papers indicate common features of domestic design from island South-East Asia to Melanesia and the Pacific. This volume is a publication of the Research School of Pacific Studies’ Comparative Austronesian Project.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9780731515950
- ISBN (online):
- 9781920942847
- Publication date:
- Sep 2006
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/IA.09.2006
- Series:
- Comparative Austronesian Series
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies; Social Sciences: Anthropology, Sociology
- Countries:
- Pacific: Papua New Guinea, New Zealand; Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia
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- Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Houses: An Introductory Essay (PDF, 275KB) – James J. Fox doi
- The Lahanan Longhouse (PDF, 188KB) – Jennifer Alexander doi
- Good Walls Make Bad Neighbours: The Dayak Longhouse as a Community of Voices (PDF, 260KB) – Christine Helliwell doi
- Posts, Hearths and Thresholds: The Iban Longhouse as a Ritual Structure (PDF, 693KB) – Clifford Sather doi
- Raising the House Post and Feeding the Husband-Givers: The spatial categories of social reproduction among the Minangkabau (PDF, 347KB) – Cecilia Ng doi
- Memories of Ridge-Poles and Cross-Beams: The categorical foundations of a Rotinese cultural design (PDF, 542KB) – James J. Fox doi
- The Kalauna House of Secrets (PDF, 239KB) – Michael W. Young doi
- Maori Meeting-Houses in and Over Time (PDF, 361KB) – Toon van Meijl doi
- Houses and the Built Environment in Island South-East Asia: Tracing some shared themes in the uses of space (PDF, 162KB) – Roxana Waterson doi
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